President Donald Trump has helped revive the coal industry, and this achievement was reinforced on Monday by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin‘s announcement that more land would be opened for coal production and that punitive regulations hobbling the industry would be rolled back. But new spending by the Energy Department is unnecessary and repeats the failures of the Biden administration.

Coal’s comeback is a direct repudiation of the damaging climate change policies of the Obama and Biden administrations, which sent coal production plummeting and electricity prices skyrocketing. More than 300 coal-fired power plants have been forced to close since the Obama administration declared war on coal, and coal production has fallen by half.